Belle Wong: writer, reader, creativity junkie

Some Lovely Awards

Diane at The Book Resort gave me this sweet little Heartfelt award. Isn’t it cute? Diane created this award to express that nice toasty warm feeling you get inside, when you’re relaxed, having tea and cookies with friends and family.

It is such a sweet little award – I love the mouse popping in and out of the teacup! Thank you, Diane!

I’d like to pass this award to five book bloggers who have captured my heart – they are all on my “must read” list, and when I’m blog browsing, I always visit them first:

Diane at The Book Resort also passed the Lemonade Award to me. It’s given to those blogs that show great attitude or gratitude. Another lovely award!

I’d like to do something a little different with this award. I follow so many great book blogs in my feedreader, and it seems to me that as a whole, this entire community is one with great attitude and gratitude.

So I’d like to figuratively present this award to the community as a whole!

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I'm a writer, avid reader, artist-at-heart & book indexer. I blog about writing, books, art, creativity, spirituality, & the power of the imagination. Oh, and I like to write stuff about life in general, too!

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." - Stephen King

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The purpose of being a serious writer is not to express oneself, and it is not to make something beautiful, though one might do those things anyway. Those things are beside the point. The purpose of being a serious writer is to keep people from despair. If you keep that in mind always, the wish to make something beautiful or smart looks slight and vain in comparison. If people read your work and, as a result, choose life, then you are doing your job.

“I didn’t write my books for posterity (not that posterity would have cared): I wrote them for myself. Which doesn’t mean I didn’t hunger for readers and fame. I never could have endured so much hard, solitary labor without the prospect of an audience. But this graveyard of dead books doesn’t unnerve me. It reminds me that I had a deeper motive, one that only the approach of old age and death has unlocked. I wrote to answer questions I had — the motive of all art, whatever its ostensible subject. There were things I urgently needed to know. ” James Atlas

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